xxxv, 452 pages ; 20 cm

St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) saw religion as part of the natural human propensity to worship. His ability to recognize the naturalness of this phenomenon and simultaneously to go beyond it--to explore, for example, spiritual revelation--makes his work as fresh and readable today as it was seven centuries ago. This accessible new translation offers thirty-eight substantial passages not only from the indispensable Summa Theologicae, but from many other works, fully illustrating the breadth and progression of Aquinas's philosophy. It is an ideal introduction to this key figure in the philosophy of religion. -- Description from http://www.oup.com (April 19, 2012)

"First published as a World's Classics paperback 1993. Reissued as an Oxford World's Classics paperback 1998"--Title page verso

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxiv-xxxv) and index

I. Structures of thought -- II. Structures of things in general -- III. The ladder of being -- IV. God in himself -- V. God as the beginning of things -- VI. God as the end of things

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